State Expands Its Mosquito Warning To 28 Counties

August 1, 2001

State health officials extended a medical alert for mosquito-borne viruses from 17 to 28 North Florida counties Tuesday. Health officials are assuming that if the diseases are being found as far east as Duval County and as far west as Okaloosa County, they are likely present in between, even if no animal deaths have been attributed to them in a particular county. The counties under the alert are Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Lafayette, Nassau, St. Johns, Suwannee, Union, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington, Jackson, Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Franklin, Liberty, Gadsden, Wakulla, Leon, Jefferson, Madison and Taylor.